hi craig, as one reposnse asked, how did i install, could i be so far off base? i have 4 fc 4 iso images on cd that i installed wiping all that was on the disk and forcing a fresh install. i selected everything and Was confident that i got all worth having. i am now much less confident. after the correct rpm flags, i still get... [root@linland ~]# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/yum-2.4.1-1.fc4.noarch.rpm Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/yum-2.4.1-1.fc4.noarch.rpm warning: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.ztZEDe: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2 error: Failed dependencies: python(abi) = 2.4 is needed by yum-2.4.1-1.fc4.noarch python-elementtree is needed by yum-2.4.1-1.fc4.noarch python-sqlite is needed by yum-2.4.1-1.fc4.noarch urlgrabber is needed by yum-2.4.1-1.fc4.noarch what do you think? what i got of python is ... beecrypt-python-3.1.0-6 dbus-python-0.22-11.EL gnome-python2-2.6.0-3 gnome-python2-applet-2.6.0-3 gnome-python2-bonobo-2.6.0-3 gnome-python2-canvas-2.6.0-3 gnome-python2-gconf-2.6.0-3 gnome-python2-gnomeprint-2.6.0-3 gnome-python2-gnomevfs-2.6.0-3 gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.6.0-3 gnome-python2-nautilus-2.6.0-3 libxml2-python-2.6.16-6 libxslt-python-1.1.11-1 mod_python-3.1.3-5 MySQL-python-1.0.0-1.RHEL4.1 postgresql-python-7.4.6-1.RHEL4.2 python-2.3.4-14 python-devel-2.3.4-14 python-docs-2.3.4-14 python-ldap-2.0.1-2 python-tools-2.3.4-14 rpm-python-4.3.3-7_nonptl without yum, is it safe to do an python 2.4 rpm install? tia,jackc... On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 16:19 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 15:00 -0800, jackc wrote: > > thx for your reply craig, > > > > weird though, which doesnt see it, rpm doesnt, neither does the cmd > > line. > > > > [root@linland tmp]# id > > uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6 > > (disk),10(wheel) > > [root@linland tmp]# which yum > > /usr/bin/which: no yum in > > (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin) > > [root@linland tmp]# yum > > -bash: yum: command not found > > > > > > > > [root@linland tmp]# rpm -ql yum > > package yum is not installed > > > > is it supposed to be installed after an everything install of fc4 ? > > i thought i had done all on the distribution, was i supposed to load it > > later? > > > > thx... > ---- > that is odd...seems that it would be hard to install FC-4 and not get > yum installed. > > Anyway, this should do the trick for you (assuming i386) > rpm -Fvh \ > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/yum-2.4.1-1.fc4.noarch.rpm > > Craig > -- Jack Craig XPath/SAS Team Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. 1600 Technology Dr. San Jose, CA 95110 408.333.7478 Direct E-mail: jcraig@xxxxxxxxxxx
